How can I pass a string date from a variable into the new Date constructor? See code below. Do I need to convert it first somehow? The alert comes back as invalid. Thanks.

var hello = '18/11/2021';
var end = new Date(hello);
alert(end);

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CodePudding user response：

When using one argument, string constructor, the date must be specified in simplified ISO 8601 date format. yyyy-mm-dd works just fine. Using any other format not described in the linked reference is discouraged and the results are implementation specific.

hello = '2021-11-18';
end = new Date(hello);
alert(end);

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CodePudding user response：

it's your dateString format. First the year, month and then day.

hello = '2021/11/18';
end = new Date(hello);
alert(end);

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